MAREN FAVELA

Soprano

Maren Favela received a scholarship from the Arte Musica Foundation and was a member of the Opera Studio at Oper Frankfurt until 2012/13. She appears as a guest at Oper Frankfurt this season in this revival of Ariadne auf Naxos and sings a role in one of three one act operas by Bohuslav Martinů, which have never been performed in Frankfurt before, in the Bockenheimer Depot. Roles here during the 2013/14 season were Papagena (Die Zauberflöte) and Cephisa in a new production of Telemann's Orpheus. Roles for the company in earlier seasons have included Barbarina (Die Hochzeit des Figaro/Le nozze di Figaro) and Anima Beata / Mondo in a new production of Das Spiel von Seele und Körper. She sings Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte in Limoges in 2015. Born in Mexico City and raised in Germany, she studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg with Prof. Cheryl Studer and then with Prof. Hedwig Fassbender at the HfMDK in Frankfurt. Her repertoire includes the roles of Dafne (Apollo e Dafne at the 2011 Handel Festival in Karlsruhe), Rosina (Der Barbier von Sevilla/Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Susanna / Cherubino (Die Hochzeit des Figaro/Le nozze di Figaro), Despina (Così fan tutte), the Fox (Das schlaue Füchslein/The Cunning Little Vixen), Zerlina (Don Giovanni, at Oviedo Opera and other theatres), 2nd Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Junger Hirte / Zweiter Edelknabe (Tannhäuser 2009 at the Mainfranken Theater in Würzburg).